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Kanuri is a dialect continuum spoken by some four million people, as of 1987, in Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon, as well
as small minorities in southern Libya and by a diaspora in Sudan. It belongs to the Western Saharan subphylum of Nilo-Saharan.
Kanuri is the language associated with the Kanem and Bornu empires which dominated the Lake Chad region for a thousand years.
The basic word order of Kanuri sentences is subject–object–verb. It is typologically unusual in simultaneously having postpositions
and post-nominal modifiers – for example, Bintu's pot would be expressed as nje Bintu-be, pot Bintu-of. Kanuri has three tones:
high, low, and falling. It has an extensive system of consonant weakening (for example, sa- they + -buna have eaten > za-wuna
they have eaten. Traditionally a local lingua franca, its usage has declined in recent decades. Most first-language speakers
speak Hausa or Arabic as a second language. |
Names (more)[ar] الكانيوري[az] Kanuri dili [bn] কানুরি [bs] kanuri [br] Kanoureg [bg] канури [ca] Kanuri [cs] Kanurijština [cy] Canwri [da] kanuri [de] Kanuri [el] Κανούρι [en] Kanuri language [eo] Kanura lingvo [et] kanuri [ee] kanuriagbe [fa] زبان کنوری [fi] Kanurin kieli [fr] Kanuri [gl] Lingua canuri [gu] કનુરી [he] קאנורי [hi] कनुरी [hr] kanuri [hu] kanuri [id] Bahasa Kanuri [is] kanúrí [it] Lingua kanuri [ja] カヌリ語 [kn] ಕನುರಿ [ks] کَنوٗری [ko] 칸누리어 [lo] ຄານຸລິ [lv] kanuru [lt] kanuri [ml] കനൂറി [mr] कनुरी [mk] Канурски јазик [mt] Kanuri [nl] Kanuri [nn] Kanuri-språket [nb] kanuri [or] କନୁରୀ [pl] Język kanuri [pt] Língua kanuri [rm] kanuri [ro] kanuri [ru] Канури [sk] kanurijčina [sl] kanurščina [es] Idioma kanuri [sr] Канури [sv] kanuri [ta] கனுரி மொழி [te] కానురి [th] คานูรี [to] lea fakakanuli [tr] Kanuri dili [uk] Канурі [vi] Tiếng Kanuri [yo] Èdè Kánúrí |
Language type : Living
Technical notes
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ISO 639 CodesISO 639-1 : krISO 639-2B : kau ISO 639-2T : kau ISO 639-3 : kau Linked Data URIshttp://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/kauhttp://dbpedia.org/resource/ISO_639:kau http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-1/kr http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/kau More URIs at sameas.org SourcesAuthority documentation for ISO 639 identifier: kauFreebase ISO 639-3 : kau GeoNames.org Country Information Publications Office of the European Union Metadata Registry : Countries and Languages |